In 2019 Jenn Louie was a high-level Facebook executive working on policy regarding disinformation and privacy. The social media company had just come off the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which tens of thousands of Facebook users' personal information was misused by digital consultants to the first Trump presidential campaign, and questions about the ethics governing Big Tech were front and center in Americans' minds.
Louie had joined Facebook after a decade working in Silicon Valley, feeling that the best way to solve a problem was to be on the inside of it. But now she felt conflicted. "I was going through a bit of burnout... I'd been doing tech policy for over 15 years, and I thought, If I'm doing my job well, I should be working myself out of a job," she says. "The world should become better." Instead, "I was trying to solve the same problems that I had started my career around. It was nice in some ways to be promoted, but I actually felt terrible." So she quit her job and applied to Harvard Divinity School.
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THE MASTER BUILDER
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The WIZARD of MADISON
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READ THE FINE PRINT
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Begin Here
Take a page from Sir Joseph Duveen, the man who taught America how to collect.
NOW YOU SEE HER
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Give Me Liberty!
Creative freedom, it turns out, is a very wise investment.
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Look Where You're Going
How many teenagers do you know who spend their free time doing this?
